Billionaires

via Business Insider: Jeff Bezos made nearly $40 billion in a single year. REUTERS/Rex Curry Billionaires keep growing their billions. With a record number of billionaires around the world, we calculated just how much the world’s richest billionaires earned in a single year. According to our calculations, Bill Gates earned $4 …

via Forbes: In 2018, there were nine billionaires under the age of 30 among 2,208 billionaires on Forbes’ World’s Billionaires list. These wealthy men and women had a combined net worth of $17.9 billion (calculated as of February 9, 2018). Geographically there were three billionaires under 30 years from Norway, while …

via Business Insider: There are roughly 36 million millionaires in the world. That means if you meet someone from the global population at random, there’s a 1 in 200 chance that they could be a millionaire – this makes for surprisingly good odds. However, the billionaire on the other hand is …

Via Business Insider : In the US, it doesn’t take a lifetime to amass a 10-figure fortune. In fact, nearly 3% of America’s richest people – those with fortunes of at least $2 billion – are under 37, or part of the millennial generation (born between 1981 and 1998). That’s according …

via Vanity Fair : After briefly dethroning Microsoft zillionaire Bill Gates to become the world’s richest man last week, Jeff Bezos has settled back into third place on Forbes’s list of billionaires. On Thursday, the 53-year-old Amazon founder and C.E.O. found himself atop the list of the richest individuals in the …

Via Jing Daily : It’s no secret that China’s growing wealth makes it a hub for billionaires, but Hurun’s latest “Global Under 40 & Self Made Rich List” puts it into perspective: according to the report, about 80 percent of the world’s entrepreneur billionaires are from the United States and China. …

Via Bloomberg : Goldman Sachs Group Inc. made hundreds of partners rich when it went public in 1999. Its performance since then has turned Lloyd Blankfein into a billionaire. The chief executive officer of the Wall Street bank for the past nine years, Blankfein has seen his net worth surge to …

Via Entrepreneur : Entrepreneur and CultureIQ are searching for the top high-performing cultures to be featured on our annual list. Think your company has what it takes? Wealth is inspiring. But wealth created from nothing is the stuff that startup dreams are made of. Entrepreneurs working to launch or grow their …

Via Inc. : No matter how you define rich, this is the only way to get there. Want to be remarkably successful? Want to get really rich? (While there are many ways to feel “rich,” in this case we’re talking about monetary wealth.) Then check out this little gem of an …

Via Daily Mail : The richest women in the world – all of whom are billionaires – have been announced. Wealth-X listed the extremely wealthy women in a Wednesday release. The website determined the most affluent women by net worth in seven regions – North America, Europe, Pacific, Latin America, Asia, …

Via CNN Money : They’re so rich, they make the 1% look humble. On average, the people on Forbes’ American billionaire list released Monday have a net worth of $5.7 billion, up from $5 billion last year. Their wealth is so staggering that the magazine had to raise its “price of …